Unattached heel



R. CUTTS.

UNATTACHED HEEI..

APPLICATION FILE'D MAY 21, 92.

Patented Nov. 1, 1921.

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RICHARD CUTTS, OF SVVAMPSCOTT, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-ITALI? TO RENTON HEEL COMPANY, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS, GORPORATON OF MASSACHUSETTS.

UNATTACHED I-IEEL'.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 1, 1921.

Application filed May 21, 1821. Serial No. 471, 326.

To aZZ whom it may concem .r a

Be it known that I, RICHARD CUTTs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Swampscott, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and 'useful Improvements in Unattachecl Heels, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention 'relates to heels used by cobblers in replacing worn heels by entirely new ones, a heel in which the invention is embodied being relatively high and its heelseat end having a considerable overhang at the rear ortion of the heel, as in the well known uban and Louis heels. The cobbler usually separates the heel into two sections before attaching it, so that the overhangngheel-seat end or portion of the heel may be nailed to the heel-seat of a shoe before the top-lift end or portion is nailed, the overhang of the heel-seat portion being such that its rear marginal portion cannot receive nails driven through the top-lift portion and standing perpendicular to the bottom face thereof.

Heretofore, heels of this character, manufactured for the use of cobblers have had their lifts so united throughout 'the heel, that the separation of the heel intotwo sec: tions requires a prying operation, involving the insertion of a thin-edged -prying tool between two of the lifts. `'The tool indents the meeting faces and portions of the margins of the lifts, so that when the sections are reassembled, the margin of the heel is marred or disfigured by the indentations formed by the tool. The heel, therefore, requires a subsequent finishing operation to obliterate the disfiguration. 7

My invention has for its object to provide a heel which is eXternally finished as to its breast and marginal faces, and may be subdivided into sections by the cobbler without the use of a prying tool, and without liability of marring the finished surface of the heel, thus obviating the necessity of a repetition of the original finishing operation.

The invention is embodied in the improvements which I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawing-S forming a part of this specification,-'

F igure 1 is a perspective View of an unattached heel embodying the nvention.

Fig. 2 is a section on theplane indicated by the line 2--2 of Fig. l.

Fig. 3 'is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Figs. 4: and 5 are sectional views 'showing separately the two sections 'into which the heel is divisible.

Fig. 6 shows conventionally, by dotted lines, a heel-seat and nals attac'hing the heel-seat section of thedivided heel thereto.

Fig. 7 is a View similar to Fig. 6, showing the top-lift section reattached to the heelseat section.

Fig. 8 is a view similarto Fig. 2, showing a differently formed unattached heel embodying the invention.

t Fig. 9 is a side View showing a modificaon. r

The same reference characters indicate ance or finish before the heel is marketed and is ready for application by a cobbler.

n carrying out my invention, I form the` heel in two separable sections 15 and 16, and connect the same by a binder 17, whichconstitutes a pivot on which one section may be turned and otherwise manipulated, to detach it from the other, the arrangement being such that a combined turning and pulling operation exerted on one section detaches it from the other, without marring either the breastor the marginal surface of the heel.

The binder is adapted to confine the sections in their predetermined relative positions, with suflicient positiveness to permit the trimmng or other desired finishing of the surfaces 13 and 14, after the sections have been connected by the binder.

I prefer to produce a heel characterized, as

stated, by placing in' asuitable mold or` 'ably form the assembled lifts, the two sections being 'simultaneously assembled, al-

though separable from each other. The binder 17 which is preferably a wire nail, is then driven into the sectionssufiiciently to y offer considerable resistance to a movement of either section relatively to the other. The length of the nail may be such that'it does not eXtend entirely through the heel, al-` though it is preferably driven through and slightly turned or' clenched at its pointed end to form a hook 17 engaging one end face of the heel, the sections being confined between the hook and the head 17 of the nail, which engages the opposite end face. The sections are thus clamped closely together. The molding pressurewhich curves the heel-seat face 12 may be communicated to the lifts which form the inner, faces of the sections, so that said faces are curved, and coperate with the binder 17 in opposing rotation of either section relatively to the other during the Operations performed on the heel after the binder is inserted. A nail of suitable length and having a corrugated or roughened surface is sufi'icient to hold the sections when the inner faces are fiat.

Although the binder is intended and adapted to permit one section to be forcbly turned relatively to the other, as hereinafter described, bythe application of turning or twisting force, there should be sufi'icien t resistance to such force to prevent either section from turning accidentally relatively to the other,- while the heel is being prepared for' the market, and while it is kept in stock by a cobbler.

After the heel has been suitably treated to give it a marketable appearance, it is attachable by a cobbler, to the heel-seat of a shoe from which a worn heel has been removed. The formation of the heel in sections, which are connected with each other only by a binder serving also as a pivot, enables the cobbler to separate the sections by exerting a combined twistng and pulling strain on the heel, while grasping one section with one hand, and' the other with the other hand( In case the binder has a hook 17 the latter is so formed that it may be 'pulled in this manner through the section with which it is engaged, without much dificulty, the sections appearing as shown by Figs. et and 5, after their separation. If the twisting strain does not break the nail at the junction of the sections, the portion left projecting, as shown by Fig. 5, may be severed by a suitable cutter. The cobbler may now attach the heel by first nailing the section 15 to the heel-seat 20, shown by dotted lines in F igs. 6 and 7, by nails 21 driven near the margn of the section, and then nailing the section 16 to the section 15 by nails 22 driven nearer the center of the heel. The nails 22 ,may be provided with the usual spurs 23, on to which a top lift may be spanked. i

The described separation of the sections is effected without marring the external finish of the'heel, so that when the sections are reassenbled and permanently connected,

as shown by F ig. 7, there are no marks on and permits the sections to be turned, during the described operation of separating them, more easily than would be the case if said layer were not employed;

The layer 18 is removed and discarded after the separation of the sections, so that in the attached heel the inner faces of the sections bear directly on each other, as shown by Fig. 7. e

I do not limit myself to the employment of the layer 18, and may adopt other means to secure the described results.

The invention is particularly' adapted to the Cuban heel shown by Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 7, and the Louis heel shown by Fg. 8.

The heel may be composed of more than two separable sections, as shown by Fig. 9, which shows a section 15 having the heel seat face 12, a section 16 having the, top lift face l3, and an intermediate secton25, the

17, and prevented from adherng to each .other by layers 18 of waxed paper or the like,

It is obvious that the sections (whether two or more) may be made and. finished separately, and afterward connected by the binder. I

I claim: i

1. As an article of manufacture,-an unattached shoe -heel, having a heel-seat face, a top-lift face, and intermediate breast and marginal' faces, the said heel comprising an, upper section on which the heel-seat face and portions of the breast and marginal faces are formed, and a lower section on which the top-lift face and other portions of the breast and marginal faces are formed, said sections having separable inner faces, and a binder connecting the sections and constituting a pivot on which one section may be turned and otherwise manipulated to de 7 tach it from the other without marring either the breast or the marginal face, the bnder being adapted to confine the sections in their predetermned relative positions prior to their attachment to a, Shoe.

2. An unattachecl Shoe heel substantially as specified by claim l, said nner faces being formed to oppose a turning movement of either section on the binder.

3. An unattached Shoe heel, substantially as specified by claim 1, the meeting faces 10 of said sections being separated by :in interposed non-adherent layer.

In testmony whereof I have afiiXed my signature.

RICHARD CUTTS. 

